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The MIE is a professional degree designed to equip you for success in industrial, governmental, or consulting careers. As a terminal degree, it's particularly well-suited for self-funded students, military personnel, part-time learners, and co-op participants. Consequently, MIE students typically do not qualify for assistantship funding.
The graduate faculty in the Edward P. Fitts Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering focuses on four key research and academic domains:
manufacturing systems (encompassing production processes, medical device manufacturing, CAM, CIM, robotics, automation, rapid prototyping, and concurrent engineering),
production systems (covering logistics, supply chain management, scheduling, inventory control, materials handling, facility design, furniture production, quality assurance, and engineering economics),
systems analysis and optimization (including healthcare systems, stochastic processes, simulation, mathematical programming, and soft computing), and
ergonomics (focusing on human performance, workplace safety, and biomechanics). The department's faculty also actively contributes to standalone graduate programs in operations research, integrated manufacturing systems engineering, textile technology management, and financial mathematics.